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1. Forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
   "the suppression of heresy";
   - crushing, quelling, stifling
    
2. The failure to develop some part or organ
    
3. The act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
   "a suppression of the newspaper";
   - curtailment
    
4. (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
   - inhibition

Derived forms: suppressions

Type of: abstinence, bar, development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny, prevention, restraint

Encyclopedia: Suppression